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Over the past few years, being real the past decade, I’ve set off and travelled along a journey to develop my skills as a live action filmmaker. Prior to this I spent years studying to become a proficient animator and illustrator. The first route took me really far but at a point I realized that the level of clarity and detail that I’d like to attain was better suited for a hybrid approach. At a point I organized this all into a skill tree. I decided that the roads would branch ahead of me and I’d have to walk each of them one by one, gaining the required skills and then at a point walk back and combine them. This happened time and time again, 2d to 3d, painting and animation to lighting and vfx, layout to camera placement and blocking. It’s now 2026, approximately 10 years out from my first photo gig, and now it’s time for integration. Integration is a strange one because it’s almost as if I had to shelf being an artist to study as a technician. For early examples I looked to figures like my father who taught me about developing the skills I loved over time to gain relative mastery, to far off ones like Kobe Bryant who clarified that he went from scoring no points a season to an all-time great simply due to working single skills before adding another. Over time I saw that these approaches actually worked. The sauce though, the hard part and the easiest part is that core bit of humanity. That spark that was with me at the start. That style and honest voice that is and was always the artist within me as a little kid. Personality, my fingerprint. Now I no longer have to think about where to place the camera , or how to expose a shot. I don’t struggle with composition or shot sequencing. It feels like day 1 all over again. |
MANIKKOn a journey. Searching for something. Sharing what's found. History
January 2026
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